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Ajay Kamalakaran

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Photo: UN Women/M R Hasan/Flickr

How South Asian women are breaking into the U.S. entrepreneurship scene

    • Development
    • Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship, especially for women, has traditionally been shunned as “risky” in South Asian culture, but times have changed. A new generation of immigrant women business leaders is rising in the U.S.
Untouchables in Varanasi/Luisen Rodrigo, Flickr

India’s “untouchable” Dalits find liberation in American entrepreneurship

    • Community
    • Entrepreneurs
    • Immigration
Dalits, the lowest caste in the Hindu hierarchy, are victims of thousands of attacks in India each year. In the U.S., Dalit immigrants are escaping discrimination from fellow Indians by creating their own businesses.
Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

How Sikhs are living the great Indian trucking dream in the U.S.

    • Community
    • Immigration
In the 1980s, a large number of Sikhs fled a violent insurgency in their home state of Punjab for the U.S. They began their American careers in the trucking and logistics business, where many had worked before in India.

How South Indian classical music entrepreneurs make it in America

    • Community
With Indian immigration rising in the U.S. over the last several decades, Carnatic music, a classical system associated with southern India, is thriving.
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